James InhofeTier A
U.S. Senator for Oklahoma, 1994-2023. Chaired the Senate Environment Committee.
5archived statements, 2003–2015
Activity by year
20032015
What the statements do
Denies human cause3
Denies warming1
Minimizes impact1
Source: The Climate Record, verified statements only · CC BY 4.0
2015
“In case we have forgotten, because we keep hearing that 2014 has been the warmest year on record, I ask the chair, do you know what this is? It's a snowball. And that's just from outside here. So it's very, very cold out.”
2012
“this 97% [of climate scientists accepting human-caused global warming], that doesn't mean anything. I named literally thousands of scientists on the floor...and these were top people.”
2011
“Regarded as the "greatest scandal of our generation" by the UK Telegraph, "Climategate," as the scandal is called, discloses what scientists over the years had been telling me: the so-called "consensus" is simply wrong.”
2003
“The claim that global warming is caused by man-made emissions is simply untrue and not based on sound science.”
“C02 does not cause catastrophic disasters-actually it would be benefitical to our environment and our economy.”